Chef John Zehnder’s Culinary Dinner “What’s Old is New Again”

By Executive Chef John Zehnder, CEC, AAC, HGT

On Friday, March 27 I’ll be hosting my spring cooking class. If you’ve attended in the past, you know that I do things a little different. It’s not the traditional “and now you put the butter in the sauté pan”, but rather a series of dinner courses specially selected to allow the attendee to learn about and experience the unique food items I’ve selected.
Seems like all you hear on food shows these days is heirloom and retro style foods. They’ve become very popular in this day of GMO, over processed and commercialized foods.
Just a quick run-down of some of the foods we’ll be looking at: